END-OF-LIFE NOTICE, NO. 626
INTRODUCTION
This Product Bulletin covers the issues associated with the End-of-Sale of the MIP CE1 product series. This includes:
• CX-MIP-xCE1/75 and /120
• CX-SMIP-xCE1/75 and /120
The last order date for these products is July 11, 1997. Information about products affected by this announcement, product availability, maintenance, and product substitutions are included.
RATIONALE
The MIP CE1 Series has been in production since May 1994. Recently, a number of components used on this product, as well as others throughout Cisco®, are no longer available. A last-time purchase of these components was made to fill expected demand for quite some time; however, unexpected bookings of non-MIP products has exhausted our supply prematurely.
Given the available supply, the MIP manufacturing capacity will be exhausted by the End-of-Sale date.
SPECIFIC PRODUCTS
The following products are affected by this End-of-Sale announcement.
Products Affected by this End-of-Sale
Products NOT Affected by this End-of-Sale
The T1 versions of the Multichannel Interface Processor will continue as available products and are not affected by this End-of-Sale notice.
AVAILABILITY
PRODUCT SUBSTITUTION
For Cisco Series 75xx routers, two new port adapters are available that provide the capabilities of the MIP CE1 Interface Processors.
• PA-2CE1/PRI-75: 2-port channelized CE1/PRI port adapter, 75 Ohm
• PA-2CE1/PRI-120: 2-port channelized CE1/PRI port adapter, 120 Ohm
The channelized CE1 port adapter can support up to 30 B-channels per port, for an aggregate data rate of 1.984 Mbps per port. When configured to operate in channelized mode, up to 31 channels is available per port. The CE1 port adapter is also available in two versions: one supporting 75W-unbalanced interfaces, and another supporting 120W-balanced interfaces.
Existing Cisco 7000 and 7010 systems can take advantage of Cisco 7500 port adapters mentioned above with the RSP7000 processor upgrade. This upgrade enables Cisco 70x0 routers to support Cisco 7500 technology, such as Versatile Interface Processors (VIPs) and Port Adapters.
